ATX teams with Peugeot to offer in-vehicle alerts on speed camera locations

22 Oct 2009

ATX has launched a new Web-based service in France and the United Kingdom offering Peugeot drivers the capability to receive audio and visual in-vehicle alerts about the location of safety cameras monitoring vehicle speeds.

Promoted as WIP Info Radars in France and Peugeot Connect Downloads in the U.K., the pay-per-use service is offered through a ATX developed and hosted Web portal, enabling Peugeot drivers in France and the U.K. to continually download updates on safety monitoring camera sites throughout 14 countries in Europe (France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Andorra, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic and Slovenia) to a USB flash drive or memory card that can then be plugged into the automobile's navigation system. Drivers who purchase the information would then receive alerts through their in-vehicle display screen when approaching an area where a safety camera is located.

Being accessible through the personalized pages created by vehicle owners on their Peugeot Website, the ATX portal would also enable the drivers to access the most recent file purchased to provide the owner with a log of what they've downloaded, and when available, purchase additional updates to the speed camera data. Payment would be handled through credit cards.

According to Arnaud de Meulemeester, managing director of ATX Europe, enabling the connection with Web-based applications to get information to the vehicle would become one of the primary characteristics of connected vehicle services.